As práticas de (re)construção em "Estados Fracassados" e a lógica colonial

Abstract

The International Security agenda took new directions after the September 11 attacks in the United States. Present in the academic and political debate since the 90s, now the phenomenon of "Failed States" was established with an importance and immediacy that transcended the previously humanitarian dimension, assuming an international security problem by relating state failure to the operation of terrorist groups. Based on the ideals of Liberal Internationalism, the political discourses of powers such as the US, with the Bush administration, and of International Organizations such as the UN, turned to reconstruction operations (Peacebuilding and statebuilding) as the solution for "The Failed States". In this work I construct the argument that the reconstructions in "Failed States", in a post-colonial world, assume an export character of democratic governance and the liberal western model of state. The research was organized through literature review of the theme, analysis of primary sources, political and seeking to understand i) the production of knowledge about failed states as a political construction that reinforces the colonial discourse and reproduces hierarchies on issues of inequality and difference, ii) the political use of "failed states" as legitimation of reconstruction interventions for the export of liberal ideals, operating in a colonial logic